Car driver stabs MBA student to death in Ahmedabad

A 23-year-old student of a prominent business school in Ahmedabad was stabbed to death allegedly by an unidentified driver of a car after an argument over rash driving, police said on Nov 11.

The incident took place at around 11.30 pm on Nov 10 when two students of the Mudra Institute of Communications (MICA) were returning on a motorcycle to a hostel of their institute after buying a cake at a bakery shop.

According to the Superintendent of Police, Ahmedabad Rural, Om Prakash Jat, on their way back, the students had a heated argument with the speeding four-wheeler's driver at the Bopal locality crossroads over his rash driving.

“The car driver trailed the students for about 200 meters before taking out a knife from his vehicle and stabbing one of them,” Jat was quoted as saying by news agency PTI.

The victim, identified as Priyanshu Jain, was rushed to a hospital where he succumbed to the injuries due to internal bleeding, the police officer said.

"The accused has not yet been identified but we are on the lookout for him and he will nab him soon," he added.

The victim was a second-year Master of Business Administration (MBA) student at the institute.